Author: gregoryheller

<p>I logged a bunch of the chat from yesterday's PDF. There was live back channel chat throughout the conference, and at many points it was shown on a big screen in the main auditorium behind the speakers. THis made for a few intesting moments when the chat overtook the presenters. But like anything else there…

<p>I have blogged about this before, bu ti just got out of the session on Muni Wifi with Andre Raseij and Dianah Neff from Philadelphia.</p> <p>The conversation was interesting, and hopeful, the big take away was that if we don't fight for muni wifi, the telcos are going to lobby to take it away, or…

<p>Remember it is pronounced "Row-Shay"…</p> <p>Andrew gave the introduction this morning for the conference and for the Key Note Speaker, Scott Heiferman of MeetUp.com (<em> y'all know the url, I'm not giving them a link, you can go to upcomming.org for all your meetup calendar/invite need</em>)</p> <p>Besides the usually plesentries of thanking attendees, presenters and…

<p>Zack Rosen of [lk:civicspacelabs.org|Civic Space Labs] took a few minutes to speak with me about the PDF, the [l:http://upcoming.org/event/18738|CivicSpace User Con (tomorrow at the tank)] and techno-political conferences in general.</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_Zack.mp3|Click here to listen]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/PDF_Zack.mp3">PDF_Zack.mp3</a></td><td>378.82 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>Here is a short interview with [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel Hidalgo] (my coworker)</p> <p>He gives his quick impressions on the morning sessions at the [lk:personaldemocracy.com].</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_NoelH.mp3|Click Here to Listen]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/PDF_NoelH.mp3">PDF_NoelH.mp3</a></td><td>229.32 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>Ben Geyerhan took a few minutes to answer my questions between sessions. Ben is now with teh [l:http://www.newdem.org|New Democratic Network], but we know each other form the John Edwards Primary Campaign.</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_BenG.mp3|Click here to Listen]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/PDF_BenG.mp3">PDF_BenG.mp3</a></td><td>146.15 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>Noel just pointed out to me that two screen we can see in front of us are trained on tasks unrelated to the conference (as in, not their personal blogs, and not the PDF site, and not the Live Chat). Maybe they are researching posts? Well not the guys editing a video on his mac,…

<p>The morning session of PDF was interesting, starting late, rife with technical difficulties (projector not working, spotting internet access). Scott Hjeiferman, an interesting choice for keynote speaker, being that the general consensu around the net (well atleast the activist community, is that MeetUp Jumped the shark by starting to charge, what when you can use…

<p>You may remember [gh:node/82|an earlier post on funding open source development collaboratively]. I have been talking about this with people since the [lk:nten.net|nTen] and now, courtesy of [lk:sstrudeau|Scott Trudeau] if have found [l:http://www.fundable.org/|Fundable.org] a tool for collaborative funding of "purchases". </p> <p>Basically your contribution is only a pledge until a target ammount has been raised.…

<p>I love the internet, and i love people who subvert the mainstream with it's own tools.</p> <p>I just found [lk:delocator.net|The Delocator] on [l:http://techstrategy.typepad.com/emerging/2005/04/delocatornet.html|TechStrategy.org's blog] <strike> Not sure how I found tech strategy, I think someone put it up on the [lk:wiki.penguineday.org|Penguin Day Wiki].</strike> That's right, this is Katrin Verclas' Blog.<br /> (I was in the…